Thy soul was like a star, and dwelt apart: Thou hadst a voice whose sound was like the sea: Pure as the naked heavens, majestic, free, So didst thou travel on life's common way, In cheerful godliness; and yet thy heart The lowliest duties on herself did... The Poet's Praise: From Homer to Swinburne - Seite 183von Estelle Davenport Adams - 1894 - 407 SeitenVollansicht - Über dieses Buch
| Eliza Robbins - 1842 - 352 Seiten
...integrity of Belarius was vindicated, and he was received into favour by Cymbeline. 7* MILTON. " Thy soul was like a star and dwelt apart : Thou hadst a voice...thy heart The lowliest duties on herself did lay." — Wordsworth. Milton, who is rightly classed among the most exalted of British poets, was the son... | |
| 1842 - 610 Seiten
...men ; Oh ! raise us up, return to us again ; And give us manners, virtue, freedom, power. Thy soul was like a star, and dwelt apart ; Thou hadst a voice...thy heart The lowliest duties on herself did lay. Who that has read " Meek Walton" will not answer to the perfect truth of the following ? — Walton's... | |
| John Wilson - 1842 - 426 Seiten
...— Oh raise us up ! Return to us again ; And give us manners, virtue, freedom, power ! Thy soul teas like a star, and dwelt apart: Thou hadst a voice,...thy heart The lowliest duties on herself did lay." Surely this is great writing. There is no affectation, no babyism here. The poet has girded his robe... | |
| John Wilson - 1842 - 414 Seiten
...men;— Oh raise us up! Return to us again; And give us manners, virtue, freedom, power ! Thy soul ivas like a star, and dwelt apart : Thou hadst a voice,...thy heart The lowliest duties on herself did lay." Surely this is great writing. There is no affectation, no babyism here. The poet has girded his robe... | |
| 1842 - 414 Seiten
...men ; Oh ! raise us up, return to us again ; And give us manners, virtue, freedom, power. Thy soul was like a star, and dwelt apart : Thou hadst a voice...; and yet thy heart The lowliest duties on herself dia lay. XV. Great men have been among us : hands that penned And tongues that uttered wisdom, better... | |
| Hannah Flagg Gould - 1927 - 328 Seiten
...suffering, dignity by lowliness ? " Obeying this sentiment, Milton deserved the apostrophe of Wordsworth: " Pure as the naked heavens, majestic, free, So didst...godliness; and yet thy heart The lowliest duties on itself did lay." He laid on himself the lowliest duties. Johnson petulantly taunts Milton with " great... | |
| Robert Chambers - 1844 - 746 Seiten
...selfish men ; Oh! raise us up, return to us again ; And give us manners, virtue, freedom, power. Thy soul f-same song that found a didst lay. The World is Too Much with Га. The world is too much with us ; late and soon, Getting... | |
| Robert Chambers - 1844 - 738 Seiten
...men ; ОЫ raise us up, return to us again ; And give us manners, virtue, freedom, power. Thy soul es are all dead, and its fine colours lost, Still...care to preserve them is vain, Time kills them as didst lay. The World is Too Much with Fs. The world is too much with us ; late and soon, Getting and... | |
| 1926 - 750 Seiten
...literary question cannot be understood. What Wordsworth wrote of another was true of himself: — Thy soul was like a star, and dwelt apart; Thou hadst a voice...the sea. Pure as the naked heavens, majestic, free. The vision and faculty divine of his earlier genius, differing almost inexplicably from anything there... | |
| James Robert Boyd - 1844 - 372 Seiten
...And give us manners, virtue, freedom, power. Thy soul was like a star, and dwelt apart ; Thou hadft a voice whose sound was like the sea , Pure as the...majestic, free, So didst thou travel on life's common waj In cheerful godliness ; and yet thy hear* The lowliest duties on herself did lay. This is great... | |
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